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  • Air Force, Rolls-Royce Unveil Global Hawk Engine Maintenance Depot in Oklahoma; Phil Burkholder Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force, Rolls-Royce Unveil Global Hawk Engine Maintenance Depot in Oklahoma; Phil Burkholder Comments

    The U.S. Air Force has partnered with Rolls-Royce to unveil a 14,500-square-foot facility at Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex on Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma designed to accommodate repair, maintenance and overhaul work on the F-137 engine. F-137 is an 8,000-pound Rolls-Royce-made turbofan engine that works to power the Northrop Grumman-built RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle, […] More

  • Varioscale Wins Air Force Contract for Circuit Analysis Tool Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Varioscale Wins Air Force Contract for Circuit Analysis Tool Development

    Varioscale has won a $23.8 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a prototype analysis tool that will work to image minimum size circuit features on a silicon integrated circuit chip. The Defense Department said Wednesday Varioscale will perform work under the Rapid Analysis of Various Emerging Nanoelectrons program at a company facility in San Marcos, California […] More

  • BAE to Develop Nanoelectronic Circuit Analysis Tool for Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE to Develop Nanoelectronic Circuit Analysis Tool for Air Force

    BAE Systems‘ information and electronic systems integrated technology solutions business has won a three-year, $9.1 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force create an analysis tool to image minimum size circuit features on a silicon integrated circuit chip. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will develop the tool as part of the Rapid Analysis of Various Emerging NanoElectrons […] More

  • General Atomics Lands Air Force Contract Modification for MQ-9 Reaper ER Retrofit Kits - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Lands Air Force Contract Modification for MQ-9 Reaper ER Retrofit Kits

    A General Atomics subsidiary has received a potential two-year, $39.8 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force to produce, install and deliver retrofit kits for the extended-range variant of the MQ-9 Reaper remotely piloted aircraft. General Atomics Aeronautical Systems will perform work in Poway, California, through Nov. 20, 2018, the Defense Department said Monday. The […] More

  • Ace Technology Partners Secures Air Force Renewal Under NETCENTS-2 IT Products Vehicle - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ace Technology Partners Secures Air Force Renewal Under NETCENTS-2 IT Products Vehicle

    Ace Technology Partners has secured its first one-year renewal on a U.S. Air Force contract vehicle that covers standardized networking equipment, supplies and related services. The Air Force’s decision to renew Ace Technology’s position on the NETCENTS-2 contract was partially based on the company’s record of performance of work with government and military customers over the past three decades, the company said […] More

  • Boeing Taps BAE to Support F-15 Electronic Warfare Tech Upgrade Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Taps BAE to Support F-15 Electronic Warfare Tech Upgrade Program

    Boeing has awarded BAE Systems a multi-year, $140 million contract to develop an electronic warfare system for the U.S. Air Force’s F-15 modernization program. BAE said Monday it will equip the Boeing-built fighter aircraft with a digital EW system designed to help operators detect and defend against current and emerging threats as part of the Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability System program. […] More

  • Esterline to Update Flight Mgmt System of Air Force's Pave Hawk Helicopters - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esterline to Update Flight Mgmt System of Air Force’s Pave Hawk Helicopters

    An Esterline subsidiary has received a contract to supply 50 flight management systems for installation on the U.S. Air Force‘s fleet of HH-60G Pave Hawk search-and-rescue helicopters. Esterline said Tuesday its CMC Electronics business will perform non-recurring engineering to help the military branch re-host the current HH60G control display unit from the legacy CMA-882 system to the CMA-2082MC platform. Work will occur at CMC’s […] More

  • Rolls-Royce, Air Force Establish Global Hawk UAV Engine Depot in Oklahoma - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rolls-Royce, Air Force Establish Global Hawk UAV Engine Depot in Oklahoma

    Rolls-Royce and the U.S. Air Force have established a maintenance facility for the service branch’s Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma as part of a public-private partnership. The new depot in Tinker AFB’s Oklahoma City Air Logistics Complex will be used to repair and overhaul engines of the Global Hawk fleet through a mix of […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Industry Info on Electromagnetic Battle Mgmt Systems - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Industry Info on Electromagnetic Battle Mgmt Systems

    The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to provide information on new electromagnetic battle management platforms that will work to provide command-and-control and situational awareness functions for warfighters. The U.S. Strategic Command’s joint electronic warfare center seeks EMBM systems that are expected to achieve technology readiness levels 7 and 8 over the next five years, the […] More

  • The Office Group Receives DLA Off-The-Shelf Products Supply Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    The Office Group Receives DLA Off-The-Shelf Products Supply Contract

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded The Office Group a potential five-year, $40 million contract to provide commercially available off-the-shelf items for the Defense Department Electronic Mall. DoD said Monday the company will perform work under the multiple award schedule contract in Virginia in support of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. […] More

  • Thales to Supply Aircraft Landing Tools to Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales to Supply Aircraft Landing Tools to Air Force

    Thales has secured an order to develop and deliver three instrument landing platforms to the U.S. Air Force. The Thales-built Deployable – Instrument Landing System is a mobile system that works to help military pilots land aircraft at fixed bases and tactical airfields during low-visibility weather conditions, the company said Wednesday. The company will set […] More

  • Raytheon Lands Air Force IR Sensor Chip Assemblies Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Lands Air Force IR Sensor Chip Assemblies Support Contract

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded Raytheon a $7.4 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to support the advancement of low noise infrared sensor chip assemblies for the National Strategic Space. Raytheon will update and maintain the scientific knowledge, growth and processing characterization functions of the assemblies as part of the Focused Opportunity Reaching Toward Reliable Electro-Optic Strategic Sensors program, the […] More